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Mick Roelandts, firearms reform project manager for NSW Police, looks at a pile of about 4,500 prohibited firearms that were handed in under the Australian government's buy-back scheme in 1997

A young girl holds a banner featuring the pictures of Port Arthur victims during an anti-gun demonstration.

Gun were bought back, collected and destroyed.

Australia's strict gun control came after Martin Bryant mercilessly shot 35 people in the Port Arthur massacre.


Former Prime Minster John Howard was responsible for destroying about one million firearms after he tightened gun control and launched a controversial buy-back scheme following the 1996 Port Arthur massacre

On April 28, 1996, a 28-year-old Australian man named Martin Bryant ate lunch at Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, a historic penal colony, that is a popular tourist resort.


After his meal, he returned his tray, removed a semi-automatic rifle from his bag, and opened fire.


By the time Bryant was caught a day later, 35 people were dead and 23 wounded in what became the worst mass shooting in Australian history one whose impact is felt even today.


The gun was an AR-15 rifle with a 30-shot magazine.




Gunman Martin Bryant is taken from an ambulance into Royal Hobart hospital after an 18-hour standoff with police after the shootings.







https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/15/it-took-one-massacre-how-australia-made-gun-control-happen-after-port-arthur?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C8408752186

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3562714/Australians-guns-did-1996-Port-Arthur-massacre-revealed-country-imported-record-number-firearms-year.html
Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Nice one.

Argentina's Security Minister Patricia Bullrich (centre) said the gang were trying to use diplomatic courier service of the Russian embassy to ship the drugs to Europe.


The cocaine in 16 cases (pictured) was replaced by flour and devices were placed to monitor delivery' of the drug.

After authorities confirmed that there were drugs inside the 16 pieces of luggage, they devised a plan to catch the criminals, swapping the cocaine for flour and placing a GPS to track the luggage.

A police officer and a former Russian diplomatic official are among those arrested after authorities seized a large cocaine shipment at the Russian embassy in Buenos Aires.

Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said that 860 pounds (389 kilograms) of the drug were hidden inside diplomatic luggage.

The investigation began after Victor Koronelli, the Russian ambassador to the South American country, and three members of the Russian federal security service, reported to Bullrich that they had suspicions about the luggage found at a school annex of the embassy.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/23/russian-embassy-cocaine-buenos-aires-police-arrests?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C1226610077

Funjosh:
Where is this located

Singapore

Cool....Everest ya.

Michael Jones sculpture.


Michael Jones scored the first try at the first ever Rugby World Cup.

This was photographed by Geoff Dale.

His sculptress daughter Natalie Stamilla was commissioned by the NZRFU to create a bronze statue that was later erected at Eden Park that was 1 ½ times the life-size image and 1 ½ tonne.



Floating stone by Smabad Abbas.


Coffee Kiss by Johnson Tsang


Trans I Re by Fredrik

Lucky country by Norton Flavel, a gravity defying, oversized ball and chain.





Wurf VI By Anna Borgman And Candy Lenk.


In this picture, a stone was seen hanging along the building.

It can look frightening to passersby but the stone hangs without fail at the building.

Planet by Marc Quinn, a giant sculpture of a sleeping baby.

These unusual public sculptures, crafted by Polish artist Jerzy Kędziora and installed in Palm Beach, Florida, are held in position in just one or two places.

Mike Ross is an Argentine conceptual artist who likes to play with space with many of his works on display in public places.

This ladder and window piece went on display at the Spiral Garden in Tokyo, Japan, last year where it remains.




Take my Lightening but dont steal my Thunder by Alex Chinneck.

Built via the hands of 100 people and installed carefully over four days, Alex’s illusion creates the impression that the roof of Covent Garden Market is literally hovering freestyle above our heads, floating.

As if its upper portion has broken away from its stone base to float in mid air

Mike Ross is an American sculptor known for large scale public art projects.

His Big Rig Jig, on display at Banksy's Dismaland in Weston-super-Mare in 2015, was constructed from two discarded tanker trucks.

Michael Grab exhibits real rocks that he's balanced and photographed in various locations around the world.

He created the stack above while travelling around Costa Rica in 2015.

Gerry Judah is a British artist who has created a number of large scale gravity-defying pieces.

He built this car-themed structure for the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed in Sussex back in 2009.

A daytime view of Tower Bridge, with the statue of Girl with Dolphin by the late British artist David Wynne, in the foreground.

Situated on the north bank of the Thames, the sculpture was installed in 1973.

Adrian Gray's work is predominantly sculpture and photography based on the natural world of balance.


He is based in the UK and created this sculpture for a couple who built a clifftop house in Wales on Channel 4's Grand Designs in 2014.

Marcela Romagnoli's sculptures in Puerto Natales, Chile, pay homage to the strong winds that blow through the city. They were installed in 2012 to celebrate 101 years of the city.